384 THE, ADDRESSES, LECTURES,. ETC., OF 



ADDRESS 



Delivered at the distribution of Prizes and Certificates to the Students 

 of the City and Guilds of London Institute, on Thursday, 

 Uih December, 1882, 



BY DE. 0. WILLIAM SIEMENS, F.R.S. 



DR. SIEMENS * said : Ladies and gentlemen, It may cause sur- 

 prise to some of you that I rise here to address you instead of your 

 Chairman of the Committee, who sits in the chair at my right. I 

 believe it is his ordinary duty to perform this important office of 

 distributing the prizes, but for some reason, which he did not fully 

 explain to me, he required me to officiate on this occasion. I first 

 remonstrated that if he did not wish to distribute the prizes, there 

 were other gentlemen, more prominently connected with the City 

 and Guilds of London Institute than I was, who ought to be asked 

 in preference to myself. However, our Chairman of Committee 

 is a man who likes to have his own way. We all like it, but 

 somehow or other he gets it, and so you see me here. I may 

 mention that I feel myself at home here, because I have the 

 honour of being a member of the Goldsmiths' Company, and as 

 such represent, perhaps, to some extent your hosts on this occa- 

 sion. However that may be, I have been placed in this position, 

 and am expected, I find, to make a few remarks regarding the City 

 and Guilds Institute, its work and prospects. 



From the accounts of the Council which have been read to you, 

 you have gathered that the Institution is now in a very prosperous 

 condition as regards the number of educational institutes employed 

 to bring up prizemen for our examination, their number being 372. 

 The number of students who have presented themselves is nearly 

 2000, of them 1222 have been found worthy of prizes or certifi- 

 cates, and 235 have taken prizes in honours. (Applause.) Now, 

 the distinction that is made of prizes in honours over the ordinary 

 kind consists in the circumstance that they afford evidence of 

 efficiency in applied science, in addition to practical knowledge ; 



* Excerpt Annual Report of the City and Guilds of London Institute for the 

 Advancement of Technical Education, 1883. 



